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Wrong. Fear not hippies and students who wish they were students during the ’60s, for Berkeley’s spirit lies not in the 15 gelaterias that occupy a 10-mile radius around campus, but rather in the community’s fight to preserve its true essence—weed.
Last week the Berkeley Patients Group, one of the three (three!) medical cannabis clubs in Berkeley, found their assets frozen after their sister organization in Los Angeles was raided by the police. We didn’t even know such clubs existed before reading about the event, but now that we do, we fully support the 2,500 residents the Berkeley Patients Group serves with its wonderfully magical medicine.
By all means (please!) let Berkeley be the safe haven for the distribution of medical marijuana. What better issue to fight for? In fact, why are we even posting this? Who needs convincing? Under Proposition 215, more than 80 percent of Berkeley voters approved of legal medical marijuana. Even City Council members are warning Berkeley police not to make similar raids as carried out by the federal administration.
The lesson learned here is that from oaks to cannabis if it’s not green, it’s not worth saving. But you already knew that. For yet another example on Berkeley’s love for vegetation, “check out the enthusiasm for a plant that releases a stench similar to a decomposing mammal.
Mmm, yes. Now that’s what we call Berkeley.
Cannabis Club’s Assets Frozen [Daily Cal]
Comments:
Aug 4, 2007 at 5:29 pm
“hippies and students who wish they were students during the ’60s” are as useful as lobotomy patients. 1960s counterculture is 21st century market culture for the 1st world middle class. and weed isn’t going to revive any real tension between telegraph ave nostalgia and trader joes. will you really be shocked the day you find yourself caught with the munchies and reaching for some Ginsberg chips? why is the dailycal perpetuating this bullshit? it is surely a sad day if we submit to the notion that 60s nostalgia is what remains of berkeley’s identity. don’t you have more faith in yourself and your communinty than that?
“what better isse to fight for?”
what kind of radical thinkers really exist at berkeley if the most pressing issue is the legality of a fucking lifestyle drug? this posting is obscene.